Thera, Kolonna, and Mycenae in the Argolid

Other finds from Kolonna, Aegina, including Boar's tusk helmet similar to examples found in other Late Bronze Age sites

The Argolid

Topography of Mycenae. Google Maps

• Additional views of Mycenae
  • Left top: looking up from the lower town
  • Left bottom: The remains of the Megaron
  • Right: Looking from the Megaron toward Grace Circle A, the Lion's Gate, and the lower town

• Shaft Grave period at Mycenae: MH III - LH I (c.1650-1500 BC)
• Grave Circle A
  • Generally richer than B
  • 19 men, women and children in 6 shafts
• Grave Circle B
  • 35 men, women and children in 26 graves

Contents of the Mycenae grave circles on display at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens

• Grave Goods from Mycenae in the National Archaeological Museum in Athens
  • Left: the "mask of Agamemnon," Grave Circle A Grave V
  • Centre: Child Burials, Grave Circle A
  • Right: Boar tusk helmet from Mycenae

• Monumentalization at Mycenae
  • Grave Circle A incorporated into new city walls
  • Grave Circle B neglected, undercut by "tomb of Clytemnestra"
  • Lion Gate: pseudo-ashlar

Development of the Mainland Palaces

No true arch: corbel vault ("corbeling")

• Mainland tholos tombs in the Argolid
  • Example of the so-called "tomb of Clytemnestra," Mycenae, c.1250 BC
  • Relieving triangle
  • Corbel vaulting
  • Undercuts Grace Circle B

Fresco of priestess [?] at Mycenae, c.1400 BC, at the Mycenae Museum

Frescoes from the West House in Akrotiri, Thera (Santorini), Late Cycladic IA